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Albert Camus : The Plague, 1947. (Penguin Fiction)
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague.
Cut off from the rest of the world, living in fear, they each respond in their own way to the grim challenge of the deadly bacillus. Among them is Dr Rieux, a humanitarian and healer, and it is through his eyes that that we witness the devastating course of the epidemic.
Written in 1947, just after the Nazi occupation of France, Camus's magnificent novel is also a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of human existence.
'Camus represents a particularly modern type of temperament, a mystic soul in a Godless universe, thirsty for the absolute, forever rebellious against the essential injustice of the human condition'
Shusha Guppy, Sunday Times
Had to have a quiet chuckle to myself here,as a grown up was explaining to a young child what these things were.
The default colour is PURPLE. Why? I don't know. But many people paint their Alphasmart devices, so I thought I'd give it a go with my Dana.
So, for $25 - $40 and postage, instead of buying a laptop, you can get an Alphasmart Dana or Neo or Neo 2 used on Ebay.
Alphasmarts are basically a portable, battery operated word processor.
The Dana has a larger screen, and runs on the old Palm OS, which means it can run a number of basic apps. However, you'd only really use any of the Alphasmarts for word processing these days.
It gives you room for approximately 80,000 words in memory, I think, and you can simultaneously have 8 documents open, toggling between them with the F1 to F8 keys. The Dana allows two 1 GB SD cards to insert in the back, so you can save your files - because whenever the battery goes completely flat, all in-system memory in cleared.
The Dana gives you 25 typing hours of battery life, with rechargeable batteries. So, not 25 hours lying around, but actual typing on the screen.
The screen isn't the greatest when indoors - it's an old type of screen, like that found in pocket calculators. The Neo 2 is easier to read, because the Dana has a touch-screen panel in front of the text screen, which makes it a bit glary and shiny, and the text is a bit muted.
The fantastic thing about the screen, though, is that in bright lighting or when outdoors, the screen is very, very readable. On a sunny day, the screen is very crisp and the text is fantastic! Compare that to my Ipad or gloss-screen laptop, where it's hard to even make out the screen on a sunny day, let alone read the text...
The Neo 2 which I am getting next, has a much smaller screen, no SD cards, and doesn't have the touch-screen Palm OS, but the text is easier to read when indoors compared with the Dana. In return, the Neo 2 Alphasmart can run for 700 hours on just 3 x AA batteries.
Yes, that's right: 700 hours of use! That's 70 x longer than a typical Ipad before needing the batteries to be changed.
Of course, all it does is word processing - but for writers, journallers, and so forth, it is rugged, super cheap, forget-about-having-to-check-battery-level-for-months, and so on.
To transfer your typing to a computer, you just plug the Dana or Neo 2 into the PC or Mac using a USB cable. Open a word processing program like Notepad or Microsoft Word on the PC, and press Send on the Dana / Neo 2.
The Alphasmart device will then 'auto type' your document from your Alphasmart onto the page on your computer, transferring it. It's kind of like printing out a document, but text is being sent to your word processor's page on your computer screen.
You can even plug it into an Ipad, and Send the text of your documents into any text IOS apps: just get the Camera Adapter for the Ipad, and instead of plugging a camera USB cable into the adapter, plug an unpowered USB Hub into it. Then plug your DANA or NEO into the USB Hub, and it is detected as an external keyboard! Now if you bring up something like Notes on the Ipad, and click Send, it will type your Alphasmart document onto your IOS device for you!
This is neat, because if you use auto-replacement features in programs like Word, you can set up auto-formatting, corrections, and so forth, as the transfer takes place onto your computer.
While writing, I typically transfer pages into Word, save it as a DocX file, then use Calibre to convert it to a Mobi, and I can put it onto my Kindle. Then I have all my current material, plotting, character design, planning notes, etc, referrable on my Kindle, while I continue writing on the Alphasmart.
in my quest to bring you unusual/unique things-- found this at ward's berry farm today. googled it when i got home and it is a device for taking the kernels off of a corn cob-- and i am assuming from the comments it works well on dried corn too.
Schirmer Farms (Batesville) Operations Manager Brandon Schirmer, sprays defoliant on one of the fields at his father's multi-crop 1,014-acre farm, in Batesville, TX, on August 12, 2020. Mr. Schirmer has already contacted the Texas Department of Agriculture to let them know that he will be spraying a defoliant to promote the cotton plant's leaves to drop off and bolls to open in preparation for harvest approximately 14-days later. The plant remains alive and will continue to produce cotton unless the field needs to be replanted for another crop to improve soil health or for economic opportunity. The sprayer vehicle has location and system data that is accessed by a smart-device app. The app allows him to show authorities detailed records of what, where, and how much was sprayed. He uses this historical spray data to improve future harvests. The liquid concentrates are carefully measured and safely poured into the sprayer's mixing system. Once in the cotton fields, the sprayer with its 90-foot-wide spray arms will deliver defoliant to the plants just below the nozzles.
Schirmer Farms operates in consultation with an agronomist for science-based recommendations for all soil, crop, and harvest management.
Brandon Schirmer is the sixth generation of the Schirmer farming family.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Device : Nikon D7200 with 18-140 mm lens.
Location : Curzon Hall, Dhaka University.
Captured Date : 07 june 2016
In preparation for the FAFM photo for "Smoke", I had to make this make-shift 'smoke producing device' to create the smoke for the photo. As always, I have the correct 'supervision' so as to prevent accidents. The string produced a longer trail of smoke so I could take multiple photos and then choose the best one for the FAFM group. While not 'perfect' (and even a two-wick candle didn't suffice with sufficient smoke after extinguishing) this string would smolder for over a minute. The can is a clean tuna can, and the wire is 14-gauge copper wire.
After the fireworks were over, huge bright lights were turned on so the enormous crowd could find their way out of the park. We were on the water side of the hill, so it was still fairly dark where we were. However, the light of electronic devices lit the faces of my young Korean friends. The Gas Works are illuminated in the background.
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Lynx Optare Tempo FD54JYF, snapped in Hunstanton bus station and framed appropriately by trees in the park opposite
This Upside-Down Church is located in Calgary, Alberta at 803 – 24 Ave. S.E.
Dedication plaque reads:
Title: Device To Root Out Evil, 1997
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim
Material: Galvanized Structural Steel, Anodized Perforated Aluminum, Red Venetian Glass
This exhibit has been facilitated by the Glenbow Museum with the generous support of the Benefic Foundation, Vancouver, B.C., owner of the work.
THE TORODE GROUP IS PROUD TO EXHIBIT
'THE DEVICE TO ROOT OUT EVIL'
The TORODE Group of Companies.
OnlyContest - Upside down - 2020-11-16
ClickContest - 3561 - 2021-01-30
rheoscopic fluid constantly agitated by a magnetic stirring base covered in glitter felt, pieces of which were also used to decorate the flask containing the fluid. SOLD
Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Format:
Still image
Extent:
1 photoprint.
NLM Unique ID:
101405905
NLM Image ID:
A022411
Permanent Link:
For my coming Jabba's palace I've built some technical device. I've made an instruction to see how I used some SNOT-techniques.
Current in-use cellular devices as of January 2017.
L-R:
iPhone 6s 128gb on grandfathered AT&T unlimited plan
iPhone 7 128gb on grandfathered Verizon unlimited plan
Google Pixel 128gb on grandfathered Verizon unlimited plan
Google Nexus 5x 32gb on Project Fi
The iPhone 7 was probably my worst tech purchase of 2016. Totally not worth it. Add to the fact that I made the mistake of lining up for hours in SF on launch day at the snarkier-than-most Apple store there and I can't help but shake my head at it. Seriously Apple, how do you still suck at pre-orders? Oh right, it's good press when you have people lined up outside, so there's no real incentive to improve that disaster. I've already liquidated all of my shares of AAPL given the "progress" of the company with its most recent devices. My complaints with the iPhone 7? The haptic home key is a nightmare - particularly with gloves when it doesn't register a press. The lack of a headphone port wasn't something I thought would matter since I don't use headphones with my phone, but it's actually hugely inconvenient (found this out when I couldn't hook up a microphone for audio capture). As a "major" update, it's just a wholly unimpressive device. People tout their iPhone/whatever cameras and how great they are all the time. The camera on the iPhone 7 is an improvement over that of the iPhone 6s, which I appreciate - I always have my phone with me so it's the camera that's always with me. That said, I have a collection of dSLRs, film cameras and a Leica digital rangefinder, so it's hard for me to really say that the camera on my phone is "amazing." The iPhone 7 Plus' camera, on the other hand, is very good. But I don't do phablets, so no dice for me.
As part of the battery recall, I got a refurb iPhone 6s recently that replaced my launch day iPhone 6s. I am very happy with my iPhone 6s.
The Google Pixel replaces a Samsung S6 Edge that I never got around to rooting and putting a cleaner ROM on. Samsung's bloatware is rubbish. I really like the S6 Edge - it's a good size and a nice device. The curved screen is a total gimmick to me - a curiosity that has little real-world value. Worse, you have to hold the phone in a particular way so that you aren't accidentally registering a press on the sides of the device. With a less bloated ROM and a better cadence of software updates from Verizon, I would have happily stayed with the S6 Edge. That said, I wanted to give the Pixel a go, and I'm glad I did. This device is fantastic. I haven't really taken any photos with its camera, so no comment on that yet. Google's deep integration - while slightly creepy - is handy. "Live" security patches and timely updates are great. Did you know that you can use the Pixel as a battery pack to charge other devices? Cool. I didn't start using Android devices at all until the S6 Edge, so I'm not as heavily invested in that ecosystem as I am in Apple's, but from what I've seen so far, I like it.
The Nexus 5x is my international travel phone and was purchased via Google with a Project Fi SIM. Having data and SMS and voice if I really need it right when I land is a godsend. The extra data-only SIMs that Fi provides for free are fantastic - I have one in an unlocked hotspot device and another in an iPad. I use the Nexus 5x for Google Maps and tethering while abroad, and never use it while stateside. For ~$22 a month when I'm at home and not using data, it's a great deal for me.
'Orrible little things the 12s. Their only redeeming feature being that you could prefix the fleet number with a buffer grease 3 and giggle childishly. (3)1216 arrives at some shack I didn't write down on some train I didn't board. Portugal May 1993ish.
The Web Everywhere: Multi-Device Web Design
Luke Wroblewski, CEO & Co-Founder of Input Factory Inc.
The web no longer starts and ends on our desktop and laptop computers. Today, the tremendous growth of mobile devices is turning more and more people into multi-device and, as a result, cross-device users. Designing for this reality requires new ways of thinking and building for the web.
Join Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First (A Book Apart, 2012), for this in-depth look at today’s multi-device ecosystem. Learn how mobile provides a foundation for this new reality, how to build on this foundation to reach an ever-increasing set of devices, and where the web will take us next.
Two-car Class 156 'Super Sprinter' DMU 156 480 rumbles through Kirkby-in-Furness station, a deserted request stop, whilst forming Northern Rail's 07.41 (SaO) Barrow-Sellafield service. @07.52
Hair dryers and orange color is the perfect match, specially if it were from Braun!
From upper left:
Braun Super Brushing RS
Braun Astronette HLH
Bottom left:
Braun Rapido PM1000 (Gillette Promax)
Braun Styler Set HLD5
Braun Pistol Grip HLD550
With these dryers Braun created a watershed in the hair dryers development.
Before it, ever since hair dryers exists they used to be very unfriendly, heavy dangerous and inefficient. Most of them made of molded sheet metal with a pan handle. The little ones made of bakelite were safer, but bakelite doesn't endure impacts and just one fall to break it, exposing energized components or the fan blades...
In the 60's the popularization of new plastics like melamine, nylon, PMMA and ABS provided some gain in style and strength for impacts, anyway the state of art of electric motors didn't help, inefficient inductive (brushless) motors used to be silent, however, without torque enough to impel an usable airflow, and universal type motors used to be very noisy and expel sparks and soot from the graphite electrodes beyond the fact they weren't compact enough to provide a small and portable hair dryer yet. The best dryer in the 50's were the "Oster Super Jet / Spam-Jet", with its torpedo shape, its universal motor has a size of a peanut butter glass and aprox. 3 lb / 1,5kg.
So the latest dryers made in the 60's used to have two main appearances, or they were big, heavy, noisy, and efficient or they were small, lightweight and inefficient. To compensate the inefficiency of the inductive motor fan, engineers and designers used to make them very, very hot, some of these dryers used to get deformed by the high heating, sometimes the coil heater even glows by the high power... The roasty breeze dehydrates the hair, opening its flakes and creating static, that's why at that time everybody used to have a fluffy hair.
Unlike the handheld hair dryers, the hood / bonnet types were more succeeded since it demands low heating capacity and soft air flow to work, the popular hair styles also helped the popularization of that model of hair dryers, which were made by many Companies since 60’s to the very end of 70’s.
However in the middle of 60’s some companies like Mabuchi, Johnson developed efficient universal motors extremely compact (about 22mm x 25mm) with insignificant weight , the popular "CC micromotors", which provided more freedom for designers and engineers to create smaller hair dryers with good performance.
One of the first hair dryers to take advantage of micromotors is the Braun HLD2 / HLD231 released in the middle of 60’s. With a size of a diary book and a tangential sirocco fan blade, Reinhold Weiss created a very compact and lightweight device. (I gonna post pictures of it forward). It was a best seller and spread the name Braun together with the words "good taste", "good design" and "nice hair dryer" though.
The internal configuration of the HLD2 was the state of art for compact hair dryers and numerous Companies developed similar models under the same base along the following years. Ronson “Rio”, AEG “TL”, Schick FreeStyle and Sunbeam “Easy Breeze” are some examples of devices with good design style.
Along the 70's, beyond the sirocco type, other configuration of hair dryers also taken advantage of micromotors, like the classical radial and axial fan types; Dieter Rams, Jurgen Greubel, Reinhold Weiss and Heinz Ulrich created a range of gorgeus hair dryers with good performance, some of them in the picture above, like the ubiquitous Braun HLD5 released in 1972 under the same configuration of the Schick “Air Styler”, Sunbeam “Power Breeze” (both from 1970), however with soft lines and far less decorative accents.
The new generation of high-speed micromotors provided a new generation of dryers with stronger air flow. It allowed hair dryers with powerful heating capacity and strong air flow without damages in its external hood. A good example is the Gillette Promax / Braun Rapido from 1975 with the most sleek and functional style above any other device and the fantastic interpretation of a classical "blow dryer" from 50's, the Braun “Pistol Grip” designed by Heinz Ulrich and released in 1976 to replace the previous HLD6 from 1973, designed by Weiss. The functional volute shape from the pioneer dryers, with radial fan that takes air from lateral vents to a long tube gained a clean and simple design far from its precursors, the shortened nose keep it compact even being a blow dryer and the hollow handle to storage the electric cord complete its elegant functionality.
Braun didn't invented the compact and efficient hair dryers, but its designers proved that it's possible to create a big variety of style for the same product using the "less is more" rule. The beauty is just a consequence of a work well done and makes them pieces of art.
Some of these serious gentlemen hold metal tools and on the desk I can see metal pikes of different size and shape. In the open boxes I can make out various accessories and elecrical switches.
According to the clamp, the man on the left is holding, I assume that the devices are probably lightning arresters. But any other idea is welcome!
[Germany, unidentified photographer, 1910-1920?]